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The NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has phoned home, more than 60 days after last establishing contact.Ingenuity’s last flight was on April 26th, when the rotorcraft took to Martian skies for 139 seconds and hopped 363 meters.
The copter’s role is to fly ahead of the Perseverance Rover and scout any potential obstacles or items of interest. On Flight 52, that meant the flying machine landed over a hill, in a location from which it did not enjoy line of sight to the rover. Perseverance has since caught up, crested the hill, and on June 28th was able to see Ingenuity and re-establish contact.of the copter’s status, based on the little data it’s shared, “indicates all is well with the first aircraft on another world.”after flight 49, when the rotorcraft was out of touch for over six days.
The copter eventually came back online and flew three more times before the Martian terrain led to its silence after flight 52. A tentative flight plan for a 53rd journey has since been developed, with NASA planning to visit “an interim airfield to the west, from which the team plans to perform another westward flight to a new base of operations near a rocky outcrop the Perseverance team is interested in exploring.”
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